Meredith Martin Addy
Co-founder & Partner
Co-founder of AddyHart P.C., Meredith is a deeply experienced intellectual property litigator. She specializes in cases before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit, in US district courts, and at the USPTO’s Patent Trial and Appeal Board.
Robert P. Hart
Co-founder & Partner
Co-founder of AddyHart, P.C., Robert has more than 25 years’ experience in private practice and as in-house counsel. He represents companies through all phases of their growth and development, handling both routine and complex corporate and intellectual property issues.
Charles A. Pannell III
Partner
Chad has more than 18 years’ experience as outside counsel, most recently at an AmLaw 100 firm. He focuses his practice on technology litigation and intellectual property disputes involving patent, trade secrets, trademarks, false advertising, and copyrights.
Brandon Helms
Partner
Brandon has 15 years’ experience as an attorney in government and private practice. Most recently, he served for eight years with the DOJ as an Assistant U.S. Attorney in the Eastern District of Michigan, where he acted on behalf of the United States in both criminal and civil litigation.
Caren Yusem Sterne
Counsel
Caren has experience in trials and settlements for IP disputes in the US and Europe, including resolving patent litigation matters for small and large businesses. She also has 20 years of experience in product development and marketing.
Benjamin Cappel
Partner
Ben has extensive experience in patent law and litigation across a range of industry sectors, and including litigations in US district courts, at the Federal Circuit, in the PTAB and at the US ITC. He was formerly senior counsel to the YMCA of the U.S.A.
Gregory B. Gulliver
Partner
Greg is a patent attorney and a founding member of AddyHart P.C. His intellectual property practice is focused on complex patent prosecution and patent-related client counseling.
Paul Tauger
Senior Counsel
Paul has extensive experience litigating a range of cases before US district courts in more than a dozen states, before the USPTO’s Trademark Trial and Appeal Board, and in US Courts of Appeal for the Ninth Circuit and Eleventh Circuits.
Craig McLaughlin
Senior Counsel
An accomplished trial lawyer and patent attorney, Craig has litigated a wide variety of cases from inception through trial and beyond, in state and federal courts including against the U.S. Dept. of Justice.
Our Staff
Sue Tucker
Litigation Paralegal
Sue Tucker joined AddyHart P.C. in September 2019 with 20+ years of legal experience as a paralegal in civil litigation, including in insurance defense, product liability, property damage, labor and employment, and personal injury cases, and in other commercial litigation.